More than 3 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends and family, anytime and anywhere. In India, it is also where a great deal of everyday life gets done — people message businesses, coordinate their families, and increasingly send money as easily as they send a message.
We are building a new team to take WhatsApp further in that direction. The newly established WhatsApp Services team is focused on making WhatsApp more useful for more of what people already use it for, and on building what comes next.
This engineering leader for India will oversee the newly established WhatsApp Services team, treated as a zero-to-one effort so we can move fast, take risks, and build as we go. Staffed and prioritized, like every other WhatsApp team, from day one. Payments on WhatsApp aren’t a bet on paper: live and growing in India; the existing WhatsApp payments engineering team moves across as the foundation. As an engineering leader at WhatsApp, you will use your start-up mindset and your full range of engineering leadership skills to produce elegantly simple products. You’ll be expected to push the boundaries of what’s possible in a mobile app, while sharing in our commitment to quality and attention to detail. This is a role for someone who can hold both the ceiling and the floor: sets an ambitious long-term technical vision for what WhatsApp can become in India.
